Posted on 06/06/2013 6:16:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track one target or trace a whole network of associates, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post.
The program, code-named PRISM, has not been made public until now. It may be the first of its kind. The NSA prides itself on stealing secrets and breaking codes, and it is accustomed to corporate partnerships that help it divert data traffic or sidestep barriers. But there has never been a Google or Facebook before, and it is unlikely that there are richer troves of valuable intelligence than the ones in Silicon Valley.
Equally unusual is the way the NSA extracts what it wants, according to the document: “Collection directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.”
PRISM was launched from the ashes of President George W. Bush’s secret program of warrantless domestic surveillance in 2007, after news media disclosures, lawsuits and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court forced the president to look for new authority....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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I’ve always assumed the government had the ability to read what I was posting on the internet, including here. Such is life.
Of course they did. Why would anyone expect anything else???
and NSA pays folks to read Facebook pages? Man, I need work like that.
I’d think Jim Robinson would shut this thing down rather than agree to a tap here, but again that wouldn’t be necessary if most users were coming through internet services that themselves were tapped.
To say Barack Obama has no morals is an insult to those with no morals!
That picture is hilarious. Thanks for posting it. We all need a laugh right about now. :)
Nah, they just “sift” through stuff like Facebook. There are rows and rows of servers somewhere that are running algorithms designed to filter through all the chatter and highlight suspicious bits of data. The human analysts just scan the suspect stuff to see if any of it is legitimately interesting. Though, for certain websites or gathering places of known groups, they probably have real people scanning everything, so they don’t miss anything.
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of course they deny it...even I know that’s a duh moment
add all the telecom and internet’provider companies as well.
Yeah. I’m in the very awkward position of being an agnostic who believes in Biblical prophecy.
People are forgetting that this government has identified Tea Partiers, gun control advocates and other conservatives as “terrorists”. When we read that the phone spying efforts were aimed at rooting out terrorists and their networks, I do not think that the government thinks that “terrorist” means what we think it means. I think that they wanted to monitor US calling patterns to identify conservatives and their allies.
If this type of technological scrutiny were applied to every mosque in the world the problem would be immediately solved. But no, we have to spy on everybody just to make it fair.
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